ugh! Gross! I had hoped they would crawl away someplace else to die.
Maybe I'll spead the ready compost, throw everything else in the green
waste bin and that way they won't have a home anymore and will leave.

DH and a rat trap- oh that would be funny. He couldn't empty the mouse
traps I'd used years ago on the vole infestation we had an old house.
Can't even imagine what he'd do with a crushed rat. (actually I do know
what would happen, but will spare you the gorey details). But, I really
don't want to use rat traps because I'm concerns it would accidently
catch something else (the the stupid neighbor''s cat) and I couldn't
deal with that at all.

Theresa

James R. Fisher wrote:

Theresa wrote:

Um. yeah- I don't want a live rat in a trap anymore than I want a
dead one. I trid poison- it vanished, but rat remains...

Theresa

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Multiple rats, perhaps. Continue feeding it bait until no more
is taken ? Then you can look forward to perhaps multiple dead
carcasses decaying in your compost pile... :-).
-jrf
P.S. Why not enlist DH into rat-trap duty ?

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